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Dr. Koliou's research focuses on developing resilient and sustainable structures and communities against extreme events to safely and functionally accommodate growing populations in urban areas. Her work includes system-level and community-level simulations that analyze the performance of structures and communities to extreme events. She is developing novel resilient structural designs and systems against various natural hazards and formulating fundamental mathematical frameworks to assess risk-based system functionality and community resilience. Dr. Koliou has received more than $3 million in external research funding from federal, state, and private sources, and she is currently leading a multi-institution NSF project on the Gulf Resilience Coastlines and People Focused Research Hub focusing on the recovery of tribal communities in the Gulf region. Dr. Koliou received the 2018 Structural Engineering Institute’s Young Professional Scholarship, 2021 Research Impact Award by the Department of CEE at Texas A&M, 2021; 2024 Engineering Genesis Award for multi-disciplinary research by the Texas A&M College of Engineering, and the 2021 NSF CAREER award. She has recently been selected as one of the NSF and Every Page Foundation (EPF), formerly Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation, Ocean Decade Champions.